Quotes on Backward

It's always easier for people to face backward than to face forward.

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.

For so long, the world has viewed West Indian culture as semiliterate and backward, which it is not. In my work, I have tried to give that world an exposure so the world can better understand it.

Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is 'naive' spelled backward, or that Bosnia is an anagram of 'bonsai.'